Monthly Archives: July 2012

18 Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with […]

18 Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with […]

Who gets rebuked and called out on their sin and then gets excited and goes to tell everyone they know to come meet their rebuker? What is going on? As I was listening recently to a wonderful message by Jono Linebaugh here, I was reminded of the story of Jesus and the woman at the […]

in the evening I like to wander sometimes my old favorites grow familiar I discover new routes to which I return I relish every fading curve of the foothills every layer of mountain shadowed along the distance I love the sharp peaks against the deep sky every shade of pink and orange and blue every […]

Tullian Tchividjian recently finished a wonderful series of messages on the sermon on the mount (Matthew 5, Matthew 6, Matthew 7), which I thought were good enough to warrant a comment from the humble likes of me. They are available via podcast here: iTunes, and on the new liberatenet.org site. The White Horse Inn guys […]

I have some further meditations on this idea of the two universes. First, to clarify EXACTLY what I’m saying. The main point is that there are two spiritual universes, the universe where you start off unapproved, and the universe where you start off approved. I think of them also as the “world” and the kingdom […]

People tend to think that grace is some subtle theological or doctrinal point that you ought to get right to be a good Christian. We tend to think that the subtle difference between law and gospel is the kind of thing that nerdy theologians geek out over. The truth is, grace is not really very […]